ESPN’s Sam Alipour has a story out today in which he examines how athletes use Tinder, Twitter, Instagram and the like to procure what he generously refers to as “dates.” He also asks for some advice of his own, which Rob Gronkowski was, one imagines (who Alipour reveals once went by “chickmagnet4life” on AIM), only too happy to furnish.
Rob Gronkowski’s Tinder advice is ‘Just Google “Tinder pickup lines.”’
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“Swipe right on everything,” Gronkowski told Alipour. “Get the ball rolling. Make them laugh. Just Google ‘Tinder pickup lines.’”
Some other revelations:
- The Giants had a lot of sex during spring training:
- Many of the Cavs are too old to even know what Tinder is:
- Anthony Davis is not having a lot of luck getting dates on Twitter:
"Tinder is better for an area you're not familiar with, so that's how a lot of guys meet people," says Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer, who's off the market but estimates that a third of his single colleagues are right swipers. ... The single guys? "They're having lots of sex out here, and at least half are using Tinder to do it," says a Cactus Leaguer with the Giants. "It's like shooting fish in a barrel."
So how does Tinder work? Don't ask the Cavaliers. "It's big in younger locker rooms," guard Joe Harris says. "We're older, so Tinder is probably foreign to these guys.""Teender? Show me," says big man Timofey Mozgov, snatching my phone. "All right, what is it? A game?"
No matter the platform, the party starts when one person sends a direct message -- or, as it's been popularized in memes, "slides into DMs." The allure is obvious. "We're trying to get away from all the eyes," says Lakers guard Jordan Clarkson, who flipped user-to-user communication into a "couple of dates, good and bad." And its reputation is that of pop culture legend. Just hit Play on Yo Gotti's "Down in the DM." The rapper describes the DM zone with bawdy lyrics that Pelicans big man Anthony Davis knows by heart. Still, "my DM's not popping," he says, furrowing his brow. "I don't know what my problem is."
Read the whole story over at ESPN.
